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New Harbour
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Overview
New Harbour is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is on the east shore of Trinity Bay, along Provincial Route 80. Route 80's intersection with Route 73 is inside New Harbour.
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History
New Harbour was first settled by Europeans, during the mid-1700s. Various families settled in New Harbour, each in its own Room; (a Room is a few acres of land where sons, grandsons etc. all built their homes). For example, Thornes' Room fronts on the Pond; generations of Thornes have built homes on the nearby lands. Earlier family names include Pitcher, Williams, Newhook, Higdon, Woodman, Pollett, Cranford, Hillier, Hefford, George, Thorne. The people of New Hr. have made livings from industries such as Fishing, Shipbuilding, the Pothead Drive, Hunting, Mink Ranching, Farming and from Working Seasonally, in distant places. Going as far back as 1800, or perhaps before that, the Newhook Family, led by Master Shipbuilder Charles Newhook (first) were noted as being Newfoundland's greatest family of shipbuilders. Charles Newhook (second) moved to New Harbour from Trinity, also in Trinity Bay around 1806 to become master shipbuilder and leading inhabitant. From that point in time up to the early 1900s, New Harbour was a premier site for shipbuilding. At excavations like Anderson's Cove near New Harbour, evidence points to it being home to the Dorset culture, maritime archaic First Nations and the Beothuk people some thousands of years ago. The first people to live in Newfoundland, the Maritime Archaic Indians arriving on the island about 5000 years ago and seem to have disappeared around 3200 years ago. In the summer of 1993, Dr. Paul Bonisteel, a resident of New Harbour, was walking in Anderson's Cove, located about a mile (1.6 km) northeast of Dildo Island between the communities of New Harbour and Dildo, when he discovered a large Maritime Archaic stone axe eroding from the bank above the beach. In the fall of 1995, the BTHC undertook an archaeological survey of…
Geography
New Harbour, Trinity Bay is in Newfoundland within Subdivision E of Division No. 1.
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Nearby places in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Broad Cove2.8 mi away
- South Dildo5.2 mi away · pop. 277
- Chapel Arm7.9 mi away
- Blaketown8.4 mi away · pop. 525
- Tilton11.4 mi away
- Bay Roberts12.2 mi away · pop. 5,818
- Clarke's Beach12.7 mi away
- Chance Cove14.6 mi away
- Upper Island Cove16 mi away · pop. 1,594
- Marysvale16.5 mi away
- Carbonear17.3 mi away · pop. 4,739
- Colliers17.8 mi away · pop. 722
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Official Identifiers
StatCan — Statistics Canada
- SGC code
- 100225
- Wikidata
- Q7008426
Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) via Wikidata P3012
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • StatCan — Statistics Canada — Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) via Wikidata P3012